are two sources of this information. we have male graduate students do a full study and i vet bridges the community outreach at google gave a presentation on women and status. the good news is we have gender parody in the work force and education but still not stem jobs and women are in the work force and college enrollment but a huge gap with men and women in stem jobs. over all increases in u.s. demand for scientist and engineers, we are going to see a much greater demand. we try to encourage women in the stem field because

there is a wage gap compared to non-fields for women. those in stem field are over represented in life sciences such as biology and medicine and under represented in computer science. google shared this with the staff by the national science foundation that compares the number of stem job openings with the number of college graduates through 2018. so we have a gaping hole in the number of graduates computing. there is expected to be 140,000 jobs in this field annually and only 50,000 graduates. so let's spend the next few minutes how sfusd is preparing our kids for stem fields. according to the research, there is nine computer program sections and three computer literacy classes

in sfusd. the numbers are pretty low. one of the reasons is that computer science doesn't meet ecg requirement. student enrollment are higher. two 2 percent of the male high school students and 1 percent of our 8600 female students are engaged in computer programming class. there is good news in math. we don't see gender disparity in math and there are high levels of enrollment in algebra 1, 2 and geometry because they do fulfill a through g requirements. as in math we didn't find gender requirements. we see higher

courses that fulfill a-g requirements. the good news is that sfusd enrolls above average students. as you know advanced placement or college level courses and here the sfusd students out shine considerably. generally 15 percent or more take a p classes. you see that female high school students outnumber males in biology but not in physics and environmental science. so what does this all mean? the good news is that sfusd has a higher enrollment

in many stems courses as a whole and enrollment shows that female students are well prepared to be prepared college applicants. the only problem is access. many of the courses are not offered at high school campuses. the largest group of stem jobs is within computer and math. that's about half of stem employment. next is engineering and surveying occupation about 1 third. 12 percent if physical and life sciences and 12 percent in stem management. the question i have is whether they are going to be in the job market and stem doesn't guarantee careers. we have to examine course content and course availability and career guidance. i think in the interest of time, i'm going to

skip the next slide. and we'll go to recommendations. so, here are six of our recommendations based on the work i reviewed. one we need to expand professional development and the help of jim and bauj that's happening. expand female role models in the classroom. expand stem courses in the high schools. so new york city just launched a pilot program where they selected 9 middle a high schools to enroll a thousand kids in computer programming and they intend to have that program go to 3500 students in the next couple of years. expand courses to k-8. and to participate in collaboration so there is a golden gate stem alliance by san francisco state and there is also a california

girls in stem collaborative convened by the lawrence hall of science and finally to work with stem employers. google has a number of programs, microsoft also has a new program supporting youth. and i just want to conclude with a few resources. the department of status of women website where you can find nicole's report. google has information and also microsoft through their youth spark. i'm happy to answer any questions if there are any. >> i did have a question. i don't know if it's for you commissioner or the staff. i had no idea that science doesn't qualify for a-g which i think is terrible. clearly this is where the job gap is where the opportunity for employment

are. is there any movement at the state level to get a computer science course eligible for a-g. we are having an elective course to take them away from the sensibility of being able to graduate on time. what is going on there? >> it's my understanding that some computer science courses if they are submitted properly through uc, do satisfy the elective requirement. they don't satisfy the science or the math requirement. >> okay. great. just in general, it's great to see there is all this movement and expanding and increasing stem courses. are these replacing existing classroom courses or is this kind of on top of what our existing curriculum? >> stem courses that i have

been aware of in the district are on top of. you do still end up with a bit of a guacamole problem because if they are not taking something else, it's a zero sum game. in this case the courses are being offered and none are being taken off. thank you, it's great to see this initiative and it's also great to see the mayor's office work in partnership with mendoza to make this a reality and it's important to work our curriculum to today's reality and to address this huge gap in science and technology and the staff of women working to increase female participation. we need to figure out how to get this -- them into the work

force. a great friend of mine is working with girls to code in new york city and she's working with i guess some of our ceo's here in san francisco who are going to chair that campaign here and so it would be great to figure out how we can expand these private public partnerships. we have one with sales force but having one with this organization to have more of our girls working with. thank you so much. commissioner mendoza and we'll open up for public comment if there are any. >> thank you. so just a couple of thing with regards to the presentation. thank you commissioner murase for sharing that with us. code.org recently did a launch to do an hour of code and it's going to be the week of december 9th. they

asked for participation from all of our schools so we are engaging our school district to be part of that and our state superintendant was present and was thinking about how do we bring computer science back in the curriculum as part of a-g and not as part of an elective. the challenge on that is that we don't have teachers that are graduating with their computer science credential because computer science isn't a core subject any longer. so there is a shortage of teachers being able to teach that. this morning, we spent quite a bit of time with sf to talk about what are some of the connections that we can make with tech companies. there is an organization called black

girls code who we are going to be engaging in the middle school initiative and they want to start with our young girls of color and bring them through the ranks and get them exposed. and we are also working with our ct's and academies. there is a lot of work in the works. >> thank you commissioners. at this time we'll open for public comment. if you would like to speak on this, please lineup. you have 2 minutes. if there are no members who would like to speak? >> is this public comment only related to the information? >> it should be generated about the item.

>> i'm really excited to see what's going on with the stem project and the expansion of making sure these classes are available to students in middle schools and high schools in san francisco. for me personally i would like to see extra attention paid to make sure that women, young ladies are included and especially women of color. and that there is a huge gap as far as people feeling connected to their schools, community starting earlier than middle school and trying to address the larger systemic issues from pushing them away from being a part of these opportunities throughout the school district. to encourage you to continue to push this forward and breakdown the barriers that are preventing people from accessing these programs that are available.

>> thank you. anyone else that would like to speak? >> i'm a junior from soda and i'm a junior advisory council. i have been taking munis since 9th grade. this year my parents decided that i should start paying for transportation by myself. this program will really make an impact on me because i don't currently have a job and it's hard to get a job as a 16-year-old. it would be really important for me if this program could continue. thank you. >> thank you, so actually i'm sorry, i should be really clear. public comment does have to relate to the hearing that we've had today and not as generally on middle schools and science, engineering and stem classes that are occurring as a new initiative here at sfusd.

i'm really sorry. we are not here to talk about lobby day which many of you support and we are glad we are able to have this program. is it possible to talk about the issue that we had about today, that would be great. i know public comment is very confusing. you know, we are going to be closing this meeting soon. some of us will be walking out. feel free to grab some of us who don't have urgency to leave this meeting. if any of you have questions about the math and science and engineering curriculum, you are welcome to

come up. >> we are part of free for youth lobby day. a lot of student are from high school and middle school students from san francisco. it relates to middle school. a lot of these benefited from having the yellow school buses to bring them around the programs, the stem program had them around the city. we feel that this is something that is a priority in the city if we are looking at education. it's about how to get our kids there and how to make sure that affordability is not stopping them from doing so. youth, do you mind standing up who supports for youth in all cities and school districts. supervisors we are going to be waiting outside to have informal conversation and see if we can count you in to

support all students. thank you. >> thank you, i appreciate you connecting it to that item on hand to getting our students to school and our stem program is incredibly important and i know that munis for youth is a part of that. i see no further public comment on this item. i'm closing public comment. were there any other final comment or questions from commissioners or board members? seeing none, may a take a motion please, would you like to file or continue this item? >> let's continue. >> can i take a motion to continue? we have a motion and we can do that without opposition. we will bring this to the board maybe bring it back to the select committee on the milestone of the program to get a sense of how the program is actually succeeding in our

schools. this is incredibly exciting and making math and science and engineer more applicable. particularly as the economy grows, we want our students to participate. i hope we can include more partners because we all know how important this is and we look to have an update at the end of the school year at the midway point next year. all right? seeing no further comments, meeting is adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ]

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david

constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is

earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground?

>> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks

or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings

in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be.

>> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is

just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an

occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for

>> welcome to san francisco see planning commission regular meeting for thursday october 24th. please understand that the planning commission does not allow any disruptions. if you care to speak please state and spell your name for

record. i'd like to take roll at this time >> (calling names). complirgsz first on your calendar it tens for continuance item one at the 358 percent street request for continuance inform november 7, 2013, and the next one amendment to the planning code sections formula retail uses 703.3 formula retail use is proposed for january 9, 2014. that date has changed is there that i any public comment on those two items. proposed for continuance. being none public comment is

closed >> motion to continue items 1 and 2. on that motion to continue the motions (calling names) so moved, commissioners, that that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero >> and places you under our consent calendar calendar all maerpts are considered to be routine by the planning commission there will be no separate discussion unless the staff shall request and it shall then be removed as a separate item. the next one 17 ash burr street condominium subdivision conversion and at 400 oakee